Behind an Effort to Fact-Check Live News With Speed and Accuracy

Voice recognition and artificial intelligence are being paired to point out potential inaccuracies in real time

Laine Higgins

Nov. 23, 2018 11:00 a.m. ET

Fact-checking live news has one major downside: It’s slow. By the time a fact-checker can verify a claim, any misleading information has already spread and been consumed.

Enter Sparks Grove, the digital innovation and experience design wing of Atlanta-based consultancy North Highland. After interviewing scores of print and broadcast journalists from the U.S., U.K. and Ireland about the challenges of combating misinformation in the news, developers at Sparks Grove created Voyc, voice-scanning tool powered by artificial intelligence...